Hello,

I just installed the postfix and dovecot packages according to the document,

http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-mail-server-setup-with-postfix-dovecot-sas...

And it has been quite helpful. It looks like Dovecot works because I can communicate with it on port 110.

I can't help but feel I am doing something stupid though... The web page listed above told me to test the POP3 server using Outlook Express, and well, I am just not going to do that. Not when I can do it by hand...

legg@debian:~$ telnet 192.168.10.171 110 Trying 192.168.10.171... Connected to 192.168.10.171. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. USER test@192.168.10.171 +OK PASS password1 -ERR Authentication failed.

But why do I always get the password wrong? I twice set the password for the test user and also restarted Dovecot, but the password is always wrong.

Note that disable_plaintext_auth=no.

I'm sure there must be something stupid I have overlooked.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much!!!!

Tim Legg

Here is some additional data that I am volunteering...

# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

# dovecot --version 1.0.15